In the end, his head was already broken. There were no other problems he could acquire, perhaps he would start talking to himself, but nothing too surreal, and that was just the boy’s hypothesis.
"You are one of the least naturally talented people I have ever seen in my entire life, and I have lived longer than entire universes." Kayden turned at the sound of a thin voice and came across a cat with black eyes and white fur.
They were the craziest eyes he had ever seen in his entire existence, they seemed to hide thousands of... dreams. Kayden couldn’t understand exactly what this sensation was, but he saw several dreams of children and adults in these eyes.
Kayden saw himself having a healthy and happy family, he saw himself having great financial success in a structured world, he saw himself conquering planets, he saw himself fighting intergalactic battles, practically a little bit of everything.
The dreams were in the left eye, but the nightmares were in the right. Kayden saw thousands of deaths and terrible scenes happening. It was practically like living several lives in just one second. A cold shiver ran down his spine and Kayden fell to the ground in a cold sweat like a pathetic mortal.
His mind was racing abnormally, his memories were jumbled because of a few dozen to hundreds of different experiences that had been forcibly incorporated into his mind. Again, the surrounding mana poured in and the healing process began.
It would have taken months if not for a small movement from the cat, and Kayden found himself well again, with those memories buried in the depths of his mind. He still couldn’t understand exactly what happened.
"Who are you?" Kayden asked the classic question that any living being would probably ask.
"I am Hypnos ." The cat said this and remained silent. Kayden also remained quiet for a few minutes.
"Can you explain to me what’s going on?" Kayden broke the silence.
"Of course, but first I need you to answer two questions: what is your biggest dream and what is your biggest nightmare? Take as long as you need, your life will not decline, but if you answer wrong I will kill you." The cat disappeared.
Kayden took a few seconds to understand exactly what was happening and concluded that he had no idea, but at least it changed something in this monotonous world he was in.
The days began to pass, Kayden would take this matter seriously, he was sure that the cat had the strength to kill him easily. These two questions were much more difficult to answer than he expected.
Quickly, a few years passed and still, he could not find a satisfactory answer. He had never thought about dreams; he just cultivated day after day to become a god, but it wasn’t for power or any other reason.
Kayden didn’t have any greed or avarice in his mind, he just cultivated it. Power was the motive and the end, he didn’t have anything else in his way, but that also meant he didn’t have any dreams in his life.
Saying that his dream was to become the strongest being in the universe was a joke because he didn’t compare himself to anyone, it was never a competition. For him to be the strongest, he should have had opponents, but he didn’t.
And your fears? Kayden killed them a long time ago, he spent hundreds of thousands of years alone, he knew every inch of his mind and at the same time was unaware of many facets of his emotions.
This was because he simply didn’t have any attachment to his emotions, he had been suppressing them for millennia to a point where his brain barely put them in front of strong stimuli. Dreams and nightmares were directly linked to them.
" Hypnos," Kayden called, and immediately the same cat with those strange eyes appeared in front of him. "I don’t have any dreams or nightmares."
That was the answer that took Kayden decades to come up with, and it didn’t make much sense in his view, but it was completely right in his heart. He wasn’t afraid of anything to make it a nightmare and he didn’t even want something to make it a dream.
"Congratulations!" The cat clapped his hands. "That is the correct answer in your case, I cannot detect any dreams or nightmares in you." Kayden at least got the answer right, even if it was a little depressing. "This is quite incredible, only a very small portion of the universe is like this, not even irrational beings are included in this percentage."
Kayden raised his eyebrows and had new information added to his life. In his head, irrational beings should be incapable of thinking beyond their basic instincts, at least that’s what he thought.
"What does that mean?"
"That you are a dead being walking in a living body." The cat responded, and Kayden was startled by the response. In the end, he just set it aside after a few seconds.
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"Can the god Hypnos explain the situation to me at this moment?" Kayden got straight to the point.
"I am the god of dreams, the holder of the truth of soul mana." Kayden had no idea who he was, and that was no doubt clear to Hypnos. "You don’t need to know much either, but I’m on the same level as Thoth." A name Kayden knew and knew the strength of. "This entire world is your dream universe, an infinite place that exists for all beings in the universe."
Kayden froze for a second. All this space and mana was completely gigantic, and yet Hypnos was saying that there was one of them for every being in the universe? This was completely ridiculous.
He was putting himself on the same level as the true creator, capable of carrying out any action or thought, it was completely surreal and powerful, and he was saying that Thoth was on the same level.